Mother Teresa Quotes and Sayings

1. When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
    
2. Love does not measure; it just gives.
    
3. The child is God's Gift to the family. Each child is created in the special image and likeness of God for greater things - to love and to be loved.
    
4. Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
    
5. Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray.
    
6. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
    
7. God made the world rich enough to feed and clothe all human beings.
    
8. What I can do, You cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful for God.
    
9. Instead of death and sorrow, let us bring peace and joy to the world.
    
10. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.
     
11. God has created each one of us, every human being, for greater things-- to love and to be loved.
     
12. Do ordinary things with extraordinary Love.
     
13. There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.
     
14. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
     
15. We need to find God, and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees and flowers and grass--grow in silence. See the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
     
16. The important thing is not how much we accomplish, but how much love we put into our deeds every day. That is the measure of our love for God.
     
17. People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
     
18. All sicknesses have cures. The only one that cannot be cured is the sickness of feeling unloved. I invite all those who appreciate our work to look around them and be willing to love those who have no love and to offer them their services. Are we not, by definition, messengers of love?